Razor-blade holder



' July 17, 1923. 1,462,210

E. M. MOYLAN RAZOR BLADE HOLDER Filed Dec. 5, 1921 Patented July 1.7, 1923.

unirse stares insane @Parentl leri-'aca EDWARD M. MOYLAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.`

RAZOR-BLADE HOLDER.

Application led December 3, 1921. Serial No. 519,685.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD M. lvlornan, a citizen -of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Razor-Blade Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for holding safety razor blades while they are being stropped by hand, and is especially concerned with an article of this character designed for use in stropping double edged blades. The invention aims to devise a razor blade holder which shall be convenient to use, which can be manufactured economically, and` which generally will meet the practical requirements for a device of this character.

A great many forms of holders for use in stropping razor blades have been devised heretofore, but they have been open to numerous objections, among which may be mentioned particularly the fact that in many of these articles it is necessary to reverse the blade in the holder in order to strop both edges. Furthermore, all such devices, 0f which l am aware, are open to the objection that it is practically impossible to hold a razor blade at the correct angle to strop it properly. It is anespecially important object of the presentJ invention to provide a stropping device which will not be open to these objections.

The nature of the invention will be readily -understood from thefollowing description when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring now to the drawings,

F igurel is a perspective view of a stropping device embodying` the invention in the form at present preferred;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the more important parts of the device shown in Fig. 1 in different positions;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal cross sectional view of thepart's shown in Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view on the line 4 4, Fig. 3.

The device shown comprises a holder which consists of a handle :2 and a split clamp 3 in which the razor blade 4 is secured for stropping. Preferably the clamp and holder are separable, as shown. rlhe blade 4 is the usual Gillette safety razor blade and is provided with holes 5 5, as shown. The upper member a of the split clamp 3 has two holes 6 6 therein, while the lower member b has lugs '7-7 that ex- -tend through the holes 5 and 6 and positively hold the razor blade 4 in its proper position between kthe arms :of the clamp.

For the purpose ofinserting the blade4 in the holder the clamp 3 is removed from the handle, and the parts ai and Z) spring apart, as shown in Fig. 2. The blade may then be positioned between these parts with the lugs 7 in the holes 5, and the parts .a and b are then pressed against the opposite sides of the blade and their inner ends are inserted in the slots 8 formed in the end of the handle 2. The blade thus is secured firmly in the holder.

For the purpose of protecting the edge of the blade that is not being stropped, and also to prevent this edge of the blade from cutting the strop, a guard 10 is provided. This guard is, roughly speaking, in the form of a channel bar, or, in other words, it is grooved longitudinally to receive one edge of the blade 4, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The outer end of this bar is connected by a pivot 11 to a. short bar or plate 12, which, in turn, is pivotally connected by a screw 18 to the end of the clamp 3. The inner end of the guard is made in the form of a spring clasp 14 adapted to embrace the opposite sides of the reduced or iattened part 15 of the handle 2. The combined swivel and pivotal arrangement enables a guard to be quickly reversed from one edge to the other ofthe blade 4, and the clasp 14 holds the guard in either of its edge guarding positions. In order to prevent all possibility of the clasp 14 becoming accidentally separated from the holder, a sleeve or ring 16 is placed loosely on the part 15 so that it can be moved outwardly into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, where it will firmly secure the clasp in the position there shown.

Attention is particularly called to the fact that the upper and lower faces of the guard 10 lie substantially in the respective planes of the opposite bevel faces of that edge of the blade which is being stropped. This arrangement is of great assistance in holding the blade in the proper angular relationship ico l to the strop during the stropping operation. ln other words, this guard performs the same function during the stropping operation thatJ the back of an ordinary razor performs during the stropping of the latter.

Then the stropping of one edge of the blade 4l has been completed, the sleeve 16 is pulled baekwardly, and the guard is swung outwardly far enough to clear the blade, and it is then swung into position to protect the edge which has just been stropped, where it is secured by the clasp lil and ring 16. rThis operation is performed without disturbing the position of the blade in the holder.

It will now be appreciated that this invention provides a holder for razor blades while they are being stropped, which is very convenient to use, which etfectually guards the edge 'of the blade that is not being stropped, and which, in addition, enables the stroppingoperation to be perform-ed far more satisfactorily than in devices of this character heretofore proposed. The device is so constructed that it can be manufactured very econoinieally.

Having thus described my invention, what l desire to claim as new is:

l. A device for use in stropping double edged razor blades, comprising a holder for one of said blades, a guard for one edge of a blade mounted in said holder, and means connecting said guard with said holder and permitting the guard to be swung about two axes located transversely to each other into guarding relationship to either edge of said blade.

2. A device for use in stropping double edged safety razor blades, comprising a relatively thin split clamp for receiving and holding one of said blades, a handle in which said clamp is removably supported, a guard for one edge of a blade mounted in said clamp, said guard having a groove therein to receive the edge of said blade, a combined swivel and pivotal connection between said guard and the outer end of said clamp venabling the guard to be swung into guarding relationship to either edge of said blade, 'and means for holding the guard in either of its edge guarding positions.

EDWARD M. MOYLAN. 

